This week kicked off a 21-Day salad challenge {learn more here}. Because I’m always under the belief that the more veggies you eat, the better off you are. Unfortunately, vegetables tends to be the one thing left behind.
As a former salad hater myself, I’ve learned the art of what it takes to make vegetables enjoyable and even pleasurable.
Isn’t that the key – to enjoy healthy food. What we know, if you don’t enjoy it, you probably won’t stick to it – so my mission is helping you eat more veggies and desire to stick with it. That’s the goal of the 21-day salad challenge – to help you mix and layer salads in new combinations to come up with flavors you love.
With that, I thought today I’d focus all on veggies in the Friday Five!
5 ways to eat more veggies
If you’re struggling to eat your veggies – here are some great resources to eat more greens.
1. How to Build a Better Salad
2. How to Eat 10 Servings of Vegetables a Day
3. Skip the bread or crackers and try a lettuce wrap, like my favorite lettuce wraps
4. 14 Creative ways to get more vegetables in your diet without sacrificing flavor
5. BATCH COOK! I know I say it all of the time but I promise – this is the ONLY way I get my veggies in. Batch cook a pan of roasted vegetables on the weekend and chop up a salad. It’s a game-changer – learn the full batch cooking system here.
5 things I’m loving
- I don’t know if you can count this as getting all of your veggies in – but I’m OBSESSED with these muffins.
- I tried some new CLEAN protein powder this week and while I still love collagen, this was DELICIOUS!
- Hard pants {a.k.a jeans} are out during quarantine and all the soft pants are in. I’ve tried a billion different brands but come back to these over and over and over.
- This TV Series, I can’t say enough!
- I did some real ‘adulting’ this week and spent part of our stimulus money on a new refurbished Vitamix {GLORY}.
5 things I learned this week
5 foods I’m batch cooking this weekend
Like I mentioned above, I would NEVER get as many vegetables in as I do without batch cooking them on the weekend. Even if I don’t get to the protein or the grain, a pan of roasted vegetables will help me tremendously all week.
Last week I got a little off track with Easter, but this week I’m clearing an hour on Saturday to knock out some batch cooking. Here’s what I’m prepping this week!
- Rice
- Sweet Potato Toasts + Spiralized Sweet Potatoes
- The Best Kale Salad
- Grilled BBQ Chicken
- Healthy Homemade Fudgecicles – per the kid’s recommendations
Get the Spring Batch Cooking Guide here.
5 healthy salad dressing recipes
- Homemade Caesar Dressing
- The Best Italian Dressing
- Dilly-Ranch Dressing – my personal favorite
- Green Goddess Dressing
- Creamy Garlic – Clearly I like my creamy dressings!
social sabbath
One last thing before I leave – I want to encourage you to test out a social sabbath this weekend. Twenty-four hours with no social media. I’ve been implementing this all year and honestly, it gives me a breath of fresh air – especially through this bizarre season we are living in.
Whether in the midst of a pandemic or during a normal week, try a 24-hour social media sabbatical. It may be just the break you need.
